Proverbs 5:1

Bishop's Bible

My sonne geue heede vnto my wisdome, and bowe thyne eare vnto my prudence:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My son, pay attention to my wisdom;

Hebrew Names Version
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

King James Version
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

English Standard Version
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

New Century Version
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen to my words of understanding.

New English Translation
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

Amplified Bible
My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding;

New American Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,

World English Bible
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my wisdom,Incline your ear to my discernment;

Berean Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

Contemporary English Version
My son, if you listen closely to my wisdom and good sense,

Complete Jewish Bible
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding;

Darby Translation
My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding;

Easy-to-Read Version
Son, listen to this piece of wisdom from me. Pay attention to what I know to be true.

George Lamsa Translation
MY son, attend to my wisdom and incline your ear to my understanding,

Good News Translation
My child, pay attention and listen to my wisdom and insight.

Lexham English Bible
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear;

Literal Translation
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; stretch your ear to my understanding;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My sonne, geue hede vnto my wysdome, & bowe thine eare vnto my prudece:

American Standard Version
My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:

Bible in Basic English
My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;

King James Version (1611)
My sonne, attend vnto my wisedome, and bowe thine eare to my vnderstanding.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words;

English Revised Version
My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi sone, perseyue thou my wisdom, and bowe doun thin eere to my prudence; that thou kepe thi thouytis,

Update Bible Version
My son, attend to my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding:

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, attend to my wisdom, [and] bow thy ear to my understanding:

New King James Version
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; Lend your ear to my understanding,

New Living Translation
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel.

New Life Bible
My son, listen to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding.

New Revised Standard
My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,

Revised Standard Version
My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;

Young's Literal Translation
My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

THE MESSAGE
Dear friend, pay close attention to this, my wisdom; listen very closely to the way I see it. Then you'll acquire a taste for good sense; what I tell you will keep you out of trouble.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My son, give attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding;

Contextual Overview

¹ My sonne geue heede vnto my wisdome, and bowe thyne eare vnto my prudence: ² That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge. ³ For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle: ⁴ But at the laste she is as bitter as wormewood, and as sharpe as a two edged sworde. ⁵ Her feete go downe vnto death, and her steppes pearce thorowe vnto hell. ⁶ Perchaunce thou wylt ponder the path of her lyfe: so vnstedfast are her wayes that thou canst not know them. ⁷ Heare me nowe therefore O ye chyldren, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth. ⁸ Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house. ⁹ That thou geue not thy honour vnto other, and thy yeres to the cruell: ¹⁰ That other men be not filled with thy vertues, and that thy labours come not in a straunge house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

attend: Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:20, Matthew 3:9, Mark 4:23, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 2:29, Revelation 3:6, Revelation 3:13, Revelation 3:22

bow: Proverbs 22:17, James 1:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:2 - hearken Job 33:33 - hearken Proverbs 1:8 - hear Proverbs 8:33 - Hear Proverbs 23:12 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

Genesis 5:26
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:27
And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundreth sixtie & nine yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah [was] a iust man, and perfect in his generations: And Noah walked with God.

Genesis 10:1
These are the generations of the sonnes of Noah, Sem, Ham, and Iapheth: and vnto them were chyldren borne after the fludde.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enos.

Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo this onlye haue I founde, that God made man iust and right: but they sought many inuentions.

Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:

Matthew 1:1
This is the booke of the generation of Iesus Christ, the sonne of Dauid, the sonne of Abraham.

1 Corinthians 11:7
A man ought not to couer his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glorie of God: But the woman is the glorie of the man:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My son, attend unto my wisdom,.... Not the wisdom of the world or of the flesh, worldly wisdom and carnal policy; but spiritual and evangelical wisdom; such as one that is greater than Solomon has in him, even Christ; "for in him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", Colossians 2:3; and which he teaches and communicates to others, even all proper instructions for conduct in life: the Gospel, and each of the doctrines of it, which are "the wisdom of God in a mystery", 1 Corinthians 2:7: these every child of God, and disciple of Christ, ought carefully and diligently to attend unto;

[and] bow thine ear to my understanding: listen attentively to those things which I have, and give an understanding of, even things divine and spiritual; the understanding of which is of the utmost moment and importance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The formula of a new counsel, introducing another warning against the besetting sin of youth Proverbs 2:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER V

Farther exhortations to acquire wisdom, 1, 2.

The character of a loose woman, and the ruinous consequences

of attachment to such, 3-14.

Exhortations to chastity and moderation, 15-21.

The miserable end of the wicked, 22, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. V

Verse Proverbs 5:1. Attend unto my wisdom — Take the following lessons from my own experience.